There was a Jackson C Frank song in the trailer to the film Brown Bunny that I saw before last night's feature at the indie cinema (Maria Full of Grace, fyi). Does this mean renewed interest in the tragic folkie icon via soundtrack sales? I guess it's doubtful.
I just got interested in this guy after hearing "Dialogue" in Electroma, so yeah. I'm guessing the 2xCD version of Blues Run the Game on Castle is the one to get?
― Telephone thing, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 02:08 (sixteen years ago) link
yes. you won't be disappointed. (i've never actually heard the second cd).
the juxtaposition of that song in electroma was even more pertinent because of his life story (being burned - robots burning etc)
― jaxon, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 06:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, that is "Milk And Honey". Great song, but yeah, that soundtrack ain't gonna sell at all.
The Brown Bunny soundtrack CD goes for about £150 used these days! (I expect it's because the five Frusciante tracks on it have never appeared anywhere else).
I got a 'digitally remastered' 2001 CD of the Jackson C. Frank album (not the double disc), on Castle/Sanctuary Records, and the sound seems pretty seriously off - some majorly distorted peaks when he sings a little louder.
Does anyone have the double disc? Is the issue there on all versions of this album?
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 7 March 2013 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
Huh. Just digging around (which I should have done before one-clicking the frigging thing), both the version I bought and the two disc version are on Castle/Sanctuary, but even listening to the samples on Amazon's site the two disc one sounds better.
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 7 March 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
Blues Run The Game is such an incredible song
― I will forlornly return to my home planet soon (dandydonweiner), Friday, 26 April 2013 01:47 (ten years ago) link
yup.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Friday, 26 April 2013 02:04 (ten years ago) link
long piece about jackson c frank - http://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2015/01/snowfall-blues
― just sayin, Thursday, 19 February 2015 11:17 (nine years ago) link
Wow, incredibly well written, thanks. I knew the outline of that story but nowhere near that amount of detail.
― Life During Hammertime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 February 2015 11:55 (nine years ago) link
*bump*For those who may have missed.
― Mon-El in the Middle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 February 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
Great article, could've left the last bit for her diary though...
― rabatment of the rectangle (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 21 February 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
Ba Da Bing! has just announced a complete Frank boxset and new biography.
http://www.badabingrecords.com/jackson-c-frank-the-complete-recordings-track-listing/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
!!!
― tylerw, Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
Delayed, but I finally got said biography (having gotten the 3 CD set at the time). It's a hair choppy at points -- as with so many books these days, it really needed a stronger editorial once-over to prevent repetition and how some things are mentioned briefly and then only explained in full much later. But given Jim Abbott's role as the guy who essentially got him out of the weird hell he was in in NYC for a decade, and then his role as legal guardian in the final years of Frank's life, probably he's the only person who had both the connection to the subject as well as just enough distance in turn.
The role of Paul Simon in Frank's life as detailed in the book is truly headscratching at points. (As is Art Garfunkel's.)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 June 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
How so on the Simon thing?
― campreverb, Sunday, 4 June 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
«Marlene» is a pretty tough listen knowing the backstory, which I never knew until just now
― Mule, Monday, 29 June 2020 10:51 (three years ago) link
yeah beautiful but very painful
― making gazebo money (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:57 (three years ago) link
MAGNIFICENT song, it must be said
― Mule, Monday, 29 June 2020 11:02 (three years ago) link
«My friends in the bars, hell they only see the scarsAnd they do not give a damn, they do not give a damn that I loved youI don't know why, but once you've seen the skyYou think you know all birds are lovely»
John Hawkes does a cover of that in Martha Marcy May Marlene and I remember thinking "oh no, you should not be touching this song."
― making gazebo money (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:12 (three years ago) link
Liked that movie, including Hawkes’ playing and singing. But yeah, agree they could have dropped doing that one (can’t actually remember he played exactly that song).
― Mule, Monday, 29 June 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
secondhand copies of the abbott book, which is out of print, start at $85 ? fuck that
― budo jeru, Monday, 29 June 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
According to Wikipedia, Jackson C. Frank had two children with model Elaine Sedgwick. The son died and the daughter's name is Angeline. What's known of her? Are royalties passed to his daughter, is his estate now hers? Jackson's music has recently been covered by well-known acts (Chromatics, Daft Punk, TV Series This Is Us...). I'm just wondering if the awful luck of this great man can be somehow compensated by his daughter at least receiving what he never got during his lifetime.
― chinchilla, Monday, 10 August 2020 03:13 (three years ago) link
Me and room service, baby.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 April 2023 16:48 (ten months ago) link
Life of sin
― ian, Sunday, 30 April 2023 17:52 (ten months ago) link
I heard a really good podcast interview with Vashti about a month ago. Think it was C86.Left me wondering if her son was the motorbike riding chainsaw juggler with cirque de soleil who needed to be replaced or deputised when a friend was in the Edinburgh festival office looking for a job. But not sure of timeline. Seems to be what he was doing at one point anyway.
― Stevo, Sunday, 30 April 2023 19:46 (ten months ago) link
if her son was the what?
― W E F L Y T O G E T H E R (Austin), Sunday, 30 April 2023 20:04 (ten months ago) link
a performing role in a Canadian visual circus he was in. He had apparently been an automotive mechanical whizz from a very early age. I think Vashti gave more of an indication that it might have been him which was a story I'd heard back at the time I was in Edinburgh prior tp coming to Ireland for the first time with a couple of people I knew there that summer. Think this other persoin came back to the crashpad and told us about this on the same day it had happened. Him looking for a way to make a couple of quid and maybe get into a show and turning down this role.
― Stevo, Sunday, 30 April 2023 20:11 (ten months ago) link
well when vashti is your mum, i suppose such things just... are.
― W E F L Y T O G E T H E R (Austin), Sunday, 30 April 2023 20:17 (ten months ago) link
I do love the Sanctuary set of Jackson C Frank recordings since it had later material included. First lp is pretty classic but I think the early 70s stuff may have been more desolate. NOt listened to it in a while but I think I found it pretty moving at the time I got the set. But that first lp is pretty necessary if one hasn't heard it.
He dated Sandy Denny in the mid 60s and bits of North Star Grassman are about him, which I assume is already known
― Stevo, Monday, 1 May 2023 10:07 (ten months ago) link